NASA GOING TOP SECRET PROJECT PROMETHEUS

"The Bush administration has approved the new Nuclear rocket project. Some speculate, the President may even officially launch this historic
initiative as part of his State of the Union address on January 28."

Nasa has said little about the project. Scraping the hubbel and spaceshuttle and looking towards a new smaller orbiter Nasa is secretly planning a
nuclear powerd spacecraft that will someday go to mars.

another qoute.

"NASA has been building up to this announcement for quite some time. After requesting a billion dollars over five years in the last budget for
nuclear R&D funding, rumours of an air-breathing nuclear launch vehicle, the creation of a new public relations team, research into space radiation
necessary for manned missions, very ambitiously expensive plans including new Stations in interplanetary space, and only ever very discrete mention of
nuclear rocket involvement, it seems like the icing on the cake has actually arrived

Secrecy and quietness has been the strategy thus far for NASA and the Bush administration. Little in the way of informed data such as direction and
intention for the space program has escaped the top. The two men leading this push, President Bush and NASA Administrator O'Keefe held discussions
relating to past nuclear initiatives and decided a low-profile approach would work best."

The contractor that won the contract for the nuclear electric spacecraft Boeing. They need it after the slumps in the commercial sector

yes i know ive been studying the ion drive for quite some time. And project prometheus is a NUCLEAR powerd propulsion system not ion nuclear ion
system would be NEXIS- NUCLEAR ELECTRIC XENON ION SYSTEM. the reason for this post is that nasa has given the green light for this project and will be
getting the money for it. Also they are not commenting on anything about it. And in the past project prometheus was just a plan now its going full
steam.

Prometheus is a character from Greek mythology.The legend goes that Prometheus took fire from the gods and gave it to man on Earth.His punishment for
this was harsh though,he was nailed to a tree and every morning an eagle would come down and eat his liver while he still lived.Each night his body
would regenerate and the next morning the eagle would come back again for it's grisly breakfast.

The name has been associated with Christ figures,those that make sacrifices for mankind.Odin was nailed to a tree and ofcourse Christ was nailed to a
man made tree.

The full title of Mary Shelley's book was "Frankenstein,or the Modern Prometheus"

It seems a funny name just for a space project.For instance Apollo was obvious as he was the messenger of the gods.

In the light of this anyone have any idea why it might be called Prometheus?

Also in 2006 Nasa is planing to launch New Horizons. A probe to Pluto & Charon then the kuiper belt. The rough plan was to use the new ion propulsion
and using jupiters grav pull to slingshot the craft towards Pluto. Now the project may be under Prometheus using nuke prowerd systems.

I can confirm it. I can also tell you NASA secret propulsion work is nothing new. A matter of fact it dates back to the 1960s. Though it really got
rolling in 1982 due to an initiative started by Regan.

Ok i sent a e-mail to jpl and im waiting for a response on my question on the status or any further information concerning the project will just have
to wait and see. And I know there have always been adv propulsion system studies but this one is the most contreversial one. And there isnt a lot
known about it . Just one poor webpage on Nasa's site.

Great site Mark im goning to be doing a lot of reading then tonight. Still what i skimed through there isnt much detail about the project just about
JIMO and thats the extent of it. But, isnt NASA doing a restructuring someone said like starfleet? Maybe after the revamp we will hear some more about
this.

Prometheus is a character from Greek mythology.The legend goes that Prometheus took fire from the gods and gave it to man on Earth.His punishment for
this was harsh though,he was nailed to a tree and every morning an eagle would come down and eat his liver while he still lived.Each night his body
would regenerate and the next morning the eagle would come back again for it's grisly breakfast.

The name has been associated with Christ figures,those that make sacrifices for mankind.Odin was nailed to a tree and ofcourse Christ was nailed to a
man made tree.

The full title of Mary Shelley's book was "Frankenstein,or the Modern Prometheus"

It seems a funny name just for a space project.For instance Apollo was obvious as he was the messenger of the gods.

In the light of this anyone have any idea why it might be called Prometheus?

I agree about the oddity of Prometheus. Perhaps it's a planned "First Contact" mission? That would make sense, in context, with the mission
bringing knowledge from "the heavens" down to earth. Just a thought.

As for Apollo, he wasn't actually the messenger -- that was Mercury/Hermes.

Prometheus was the son of Iapetus who was one of the Titans. He tricked the gods into eating bare bones instead of good meat. He stole the sacred fire
from Zeus and the gods. Prometheus did not tell Zeus the prophecy that one of Zeus's sons will overthrow him. In punishment, Zeus commanded that
Prometheus be chained for eternity in the Caucasus. There, an eagle (or, according to other sources, a vulture) would eat his liver, and each day the
liver would be renewed. So the punishment was endless, until Heracles finally killed the bird. Prometheus is known to be one of the most interesting
characters in Greek Mythology

"One of the Titans. He stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and was severely punished for it. "

Its an old story but what the hell do they mean with the fire from the gods. Some people think nuclear power. but way back then.. only possible if
they used it wrong and trowed back humankind into the stone ages....

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.